Outside the Beltway

This should be the end of this story, but it probably won’t be.

Being required to demonstrate competency in liberal arts to teach is racially discriminatory, a federal judge has ruled.

One more on this topic.

I have been reading, mostly in passing, a number of pieces about an alleged new climate on college campuses in which students are raising significant complaints due to difficult or emotionally sensitive material. The latest example did not impress me.

Marco Rubio seems to be in lockstep with the extreme social conservatives when it comes to same-sex marriage.

Most managers work beyond 9-to-5.

A sharply divided Court heard argument today on an issue that has sharply divided the nation.

We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.

Teach For America novices compare favorably to veteran teachers.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor who became a household name as Mr. Spock with the “Star Trek” television series and movies, has died at 83.

Another commentary on the National Security Strategy, this one at The Hill.

Andrew Sullivan has “decided to stop blogging in the near future.”

The costs of more than a decade of war are far higher than many ever thought, and we’re still paying the price for the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration while they were being fought.

Should a professor who says she “hates Republicans” keep her job?

A 69-year-old former polygraph examiner for the Oklahoma City police department has been indicted for coaching people to thwart the machines.

Vatican politics is older than American politics, and can be just as entertaining.

Always as many military personnel identify as Independents as with the GOP.

Pope Francis restates something the Catholic Church has taught for a long time and, again, the American media thinks its something new and revolutionary.

My ongoing crusade to spark thought and discussion on the quality of representation in the US Congress.

Their places are being filled by students who pay higher tuition rates.

A fired Oklahoma worker beheaded a woman and was attacking another when he was shot. Workplace violence? Or terrorism.

17-year veteran of the LAPD says, “If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.”

Back to the Ten Commandments and Alabama politics.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

School.

George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

As the medium matures, something important is being lost.

It is now illegal to teach creationism as science in the United Kingdom in any school, public or private, that receives public funding.

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

Bill Watterson, the man who drew the legendary “Calvin and Hobbes” strip, was back. And now he’s gone again.

The Supreme Court, subject to revision.

And Pennsylvania makes it 19.

The unequal distribution of social capital may be more important than the unequal distribution of income.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

General Motors is headed back to court.

On Sunday, it’s the Day Of Four Popes.

The editorial board of the nation’s newspaper of record laments a quarter century-old trend.

An oldie but goodie from PhD comics is making the rounds.

Being a public intellectual doesn’t pay.

Rolling up your sleeves is hard if you’re a Marine.

Worst part about being named HaHa Clinton-Dix? ‘The whole President Clinton thing with Monica Lewinsky’

Snow days are no longer automatic vacation days for federal workers.